Catherine McKinnell MP is Labour’s shadow Exchequer Secretary. She spoke at the close of yesterday’s debate in parliament on tax avoidance, offering this excellent explanation of why this issue
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For those who doubt the significance of tax avoidance, read yesterday’s debate in parliament
I recommend a reading of this debate to anyone who doubts the passion the subject of tax avoidance can now generate in parliament. I’d also add it’s
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The Taxpayers’ Alliance and the mysterious absence of Starbucks
I just searched the Taxpayers’ Alliance site for the term Starbucks. I was sure they had to have said something about the issue. Nope. Nothing.
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If I’m quiet for the rest of the day it’s because I’ve got a book to finish
I shared the front cover of my new e-book, ‘Over here and under taxed: the story of Google, Amazon and Starbucks’ yesterday. If I’m quiet
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If Universal Credit was really universal it would ensure that £12.3 billion in unclaimed benefits was paid
Universal Credit is, supposedly, on its way. I admit I think the chance that it will work is remote. Fan that I am of IT, this feels like
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Introduction to Illicit Finance, Financial Secrecy and Asset Recovery
I’m teaching on this course so I thought I’d give it a final plug, although i gather it is already heavily subscribed: For journalists in the developing
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Ireland maintains it’s not a tax haven, but they all say that
I was amused by the FT’s juxtaposition of a report on some growth in the Irish economy, about which the Irish Development Authority had obviously delivered some puff to
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